Hi I'm new in Linux. Puppy's performance is impressive on my old 1gb ram laptop.
I tried a distribution with windows installer called "Puppy-Linux-540-Firefox" (Slacko) all went smooth except installing one of my favorite programs:
SMath is an alternative to Mathcad which uses Mono.
This is the download link for SMath:
http://en.smath.info/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=1447

So I searched "mono" on the Puppy package manager and installed it, then I downloaded Smath and run its .exe from the console: mono smath.exe
And I was faced with the following problem: abrupt exit when trying to activate menus leaving dividing zero errors messages on the console.

I tried several Puppy distros without success to run Smath.
A pity because I like Puppy, just occupies a few hundred megabytes and can run totally in ram. It is even responsive on Virtualbox with just a meager 1gb ram.

Would it be possible to revise Mono so that Smath can work on Puppy ?
I guess it must be an issue about dependencies.
Thanks.

If I remember, in Slacko there was only one result, an in Lucid I installed "mono-complete"

amk wrote:

Mimis,
On Linux you need to install the package "libmono-winforms-2.0-cil" (or equivalent, on Ubuntu it's called libmono-winforms2.0-cil). To run SMath:
Open a terminal and cd into the directory where you extracted the SMath archive. Run mono SMathStudio_Desktop.exe and SMath will open up.

Please tell me exactly which is the package you installed,
I've just tried Precise 5.5 (windows installer not the iso) and installed:
"libmono-winforms2.0-cil_2.10.8.1"
Once I run Smath I am faced with the same problem: abrupt exit when trying to activate menus leaving dividing zero errors messages on the console.

Edit:
Did you install the last precise 5.5 iso from the quircky directory ?
if so, that version is pae incompatible with my cpu.
did you try to open the examples from the help menu in smath ?

...Did you install the last precise 5.5 iso from the quircky directory ?
if so, that version is pae incompatible with my cpu.

If you are sure that you have loaded the dependencies
I suggest you try it with Pemasu's 'Upup Precise'

/usr/share/doc/release-Precise-5.5.htm wrote:

Upup Precise
The kernel remains at 3.2.29, although there are later in the 3.2.x series. I decided to stay at that version for now, due to the number of third-party kernel drivers compiled for it.
The kernel is PAE-enabled, which means that there are some early i686-class CPUs that will not boot -- this time I have not provided a non-PAE build of Precise Puppy -- instead, our Puppy enthusiast 'pemasu' has been building variants of Precise Puppy with recent kernels (3.7, 3. and non-PAE.

I've just tried that Pemasu's distribution as well as his last work:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=83699
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=85244&search_id=1408919778
But sadly, both don't detect wlan networks so I can't access my wireless connection.

I wonder if Smath could work for you in Slacko where there is only one package to install Mono and not multiple dependencies.

And yes, I installed "libmono-winforms2.0-cil_2.10.8.1" on Precise 5.5 windows installer version, the same as you with dependencies (checked that I had installed nearly all packages found in the repository involving mono).

Thanks for sharing that Smath works on the last Precise 5.5 official version.

Would you be so kind as to check one last thing?
It has to do with problems on Smath when loading images in certain circumstances, something related with the library libpng.
Could you open the smath file attached on this post and see if it loads the image? thanks

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